Short bio – In his drawings, films and installations, Ruben Bellinkx (b.Wilrijk, 1975, lives and works in Brussels) sets the stage for curieus encounters between radically different elements. Despite the serene atmosphere, an existential drama unfolds deep within a seemingly familiar scene, indifferent and deaf to the outside world. By capturing the slow interactive processes between objects and living beings at close range, the artist upends the banal and mundane reality and lends it another dimension.This is not so much a confounding look at real life, but more an attempt to expose the unequal relationships and mechanisms of conditioning and domestication.

Ruben Bellinkx participated in numerous international exhibitions such as Beaufort, triënnale for contemporary art along the Belgium coast, The Raft.Art is not lonely in Ostend,Tripostal in Lill e, SMAK in Ghent, Museum Beelden aan Zee in The Hague,Argos in Brussels, De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam, Be-part in Waregem and Kortrijk, Kunstfestival Watou, Villa Romana in Firenze, Het Domein in Sittard, Z33 in Hasselt,Wiels in Brussels and Marta Museum in Herford. In addition, his work is included in several private and public collections.

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